New Ulm weekly review., 1887-11-16

from the well on exhibition, and the
lights in the drill house were entirely
unaffected by the escape.
So much forA1aumee. The description
oflhe opening ofthe Waterville well de-
scr1bes in effect what / have seen re-
peatedly done in the beautiful city
from which write, which has twenty
two wells within its limits, all produc-
Ing ablndantly, and might have an
indefinitely greater number were it
not that it is not an object for any
individual to drill down 1000 and
odd feet under the Trenton rock to
reach natures great retort.
do not promise to 60 into detailed
description OF what I have seen in this
city, the center of the great North
western Ohio gas and oil belt, and the
first place Of all to burn its bridges be.
hind it and stake it's all on the per-
manency and value of gas.
Two years since, Findlay took care
full census, with q view to securing a
city charter under the laws of Ohio
and although, as one of its citizens
said, every man, woman, child and
dog in the place were counted, it
fell about 100 short ofthe 5000 pop
ulation necessary. A year ago last
June natural gas was first applied to
mechanical arts in Flndlay, and it
now has a population of $4,000 &C
| cOrding to the most conservative es-
innate.
This is the condition of things, with
but very few OF the new features at
Jra;ted by the gas, actually in opera
tion. There are altogether seventy
two factories, either completed or act.
ually in process of building, with a
capacity which will demand nearly or
quite 4, 900 men at the outset, repre-
sentlng total population of 10000,
and fair increase Of population to
10000 within a few months. There
are two or three families in near
ly every house, the hotels are crowd
ed, and 1000 persons are boarding in
the town. Scores Of families will be
brought here as soon as houses are
ready for them, and the rents, which
often reach fifteen or twenty per cent.
on the cost OF the property, are cheer
fully paid.
It is a city OF $4,000, where not a
cord OF wood or ton OF coal is burned
or sold for any purpose. In the pro
gress OF Improvement acres of wood
land have been cleared within the city
limits and the wood, which would de-
light the heart of the poor OF Detroit,
cannot be given away, for no one has
use for it. Gas does all the heating,
furnishes all the power, and does the
lighting OF the city. The gas works
are rusting in innocuous desuetude,
while a man may obtain gas to run a
cooking range for l 5 cents a month,
and may heat and light his whole
house for dollar a month.
In many stores the gas has not been
turned out IN a year; no one counts
the cost: the streets blaze with flames
from unmuzzled inch pipes, burning
''as big as q BARREL" and enough gas
goes to waste in this way in single
block to run the engines of all the elec,
trio light companies in Detroit and q
score more like them.
Glass making is now the principal
industry, although gas has been ap
piled to every business where power
and heat are needed. The city has ex,
tended until it's limits are coincident
with those OF the township and itsel
owns twenty-five wells, from which it
guarantees to manufacturers, free gas
for all time, and thus proposes, as dc
the Maumee people, to keep the Stand
ard Oil Company out
Natural gas, as applied in Findlav
is found to be the cheapest and best
means of welding iron and steel yet
discovered, and seems to have solved
the problem OF reducing alumni um